Food Web Flashcards

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Producers

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Green plants that make food by photosynthesis

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Primary consumers

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Usually eat plant material, and they are herbivores. Eg rabbits,caterpillars, cows and sheep

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Secondary

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Usually eat animal material and are carnival. Eg cats, dogs, and lions

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Predators

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Kill for food. They either eat secondary or tertiary consumers

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Prey

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The animals that predators feed on

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Scavengers

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Feed on dead animals. Eg crows, vultures, and hyenas

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Decomposers

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Feed on dead and decayed organisms and on the undigested parts of plants and animals matter in faeces

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What are the 7 things which indicate life

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Movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutritions

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What do the lines in food webs mean

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Flow of energy

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Biomass

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The living material in each organism. As we grow our biomass increases

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